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After installing or updating a plugin or theme you may start getting errors like “Allowed memory size of xxxx bytes exhausted”. This means for some reason you are exceeding the servers default memory setting.

We can usually fix memory exhausted errors by allocating more memory to your site. However you first should try to fix it by increasing the memory limit in WordPress.

To do this:

locate the wp-config.php file in your WordPress root folder

Open the file in a text editor

On the second line after the <?php tag at the line define(‘WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ’64M’);

save the file and close the editor

If this doesn’t work for you, contact us and we’ll see if we can find the fault.

MySQL is available with all our hosting packages. For some of our older legacy accounts we may need log on to the server and manually activate it. However for most accounts you should be able to configure MySQL via the control panel. If you have any difficulties with this, let us know and we’ll set it up for you.